Species: blanfordi YADGIRI & AYYASAMI, 1979
Etymology: In honor of Blanford, who did the pioneering work in the Cretaceous
rocks of southern India, and who first reported on dinosaurian fossils from
those Cretaceous sediments.
Holotype: GSI SR PAL 1
Locality: Siranattam Village, Lat. 11’10”N, Long. 79’01”E, Tiruchirapalli District, India.
Horizon: Trichinopoly Group.
Biostratigraphy: Kossmaticeras theobaldianum zone.
Age: Coniacian Stage, lower Senonian subepoch, Middle Gulf Epoch, Early Cretaceous.
Material: Partly preserved skull.
Referred specimens:
SR PAL 2: Tooth.
SR PAL 3: Sacrum.
SR PAL 4: Ilium.
SR PAL 5: Ischium.
SR PAL 6: Armored plate.
Sr PAL 7: Tail spike.
Note: Sankar Chatterjee said that this is an indeterminate plesiosaur and not a stegosaur.